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Definition: Hepatitis |
HepatitisNoun1. Inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hepatitis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Hepatitis \Hep`a*ti"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression liver -itis.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Inflammation of the liver and liver disease involving degenerative or necrotic alterations of hepatocytes. (references) |
| Infectious disease of the liver. (references) | |
Medicine | Infections disease of the liver. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Any inflammation of the liver due to infection, allergy or toxic substances; includes acute viral hepatitis(A and B)and other types; -DDMG. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hepatitis is any of several liver diseases characterised by inflammation, liver enlargement, jaundice, fever and abdominal pain. It can be caused by a number of different etiologies: some of these are drug, alcohol, or toxin-induced hepatitis, autoimmune disease, cholestasis, and viral hepatitis.
The commonest forms of viral hepatitis are known as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C; all three of these are caused by viruses that can be transmitted sexually, by blood transfusion, or by shared syringes (see needle-exchange programme).
Hepatitis A (which is often a milder form of this disease), is frequently transmitted by contaminated food, a route called fecal-oral contamination.
Hepatitis B more often involves transmission by exposure to blood or other body fluids. About 1 million people die worldwide as a result of hepatitis B, often either of liver failure or liver cancer.
Two other viruses are known, hepatitis D and E, but considered as "additional" complications for types B and C.
Other viruses, such as cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus, can also cause infectious hepatitis.
Hepatitis C infection can exist undetected for periods as long as 10 to 20 years, and researchers estimate that millions of people are infected and have not yet displayed any symptoms.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hepatitis."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| HEPATITIS C | English | Development of diagnostic screening and confirmation assays for detection of hepatitis C virus infection.Cloning | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: HepatitisSynonym: Infectious hepatitis. (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured are various slides of woodchucks. These animals carry a Hepatitis B-like virus in their blood and are being studied to understand the link of virus to liver cancer. Post-mortem examination indicates that about 25% of the woodchucks die of liver cancer and have the virus in their blood samples. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Pie chart showing causes of chronic liver disease in residents of Jefferson County, Alabama. Hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses contributed to the majority of cases of chronic liver disease in this population. Credit: CDC. |
 | Transmission electron micrograph of hepatitis B virions, also known as Dane particles. Virus. Credit: CDC. |  | HAV is usually spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth (even though it may look clean) that has been contaminated with the stool of a person with hepatitis A. Adults will have signs and symptoms more often than children. Credit: CDC. |
 | [LHC- Hepatitis Database]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | What is Hepatitis B? : Get Your Child Immunized. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Hepatitis B is a serious disease- : Visit your Health Clinic right away for the immunization shot to protect your child. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Protect your newborn against hepatitis B. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Get the facts. Then get the vax. hepatitis B. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | It's Your Choice to Prevent Spread of AIDS and Hepatitis B. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You can get the hepatitis A vaccine. (references) | |
Autoimmune hepatitis affects the liver. (references) | ||
Many people with hepatitis C don't have symptoms. (references) | ||
Business | About 15 to 20 percent of the population in Taiwan is estimated to carry the hepatitis B virus. (references) | |
Chance of developing chronic liver diseases is higher in hepatitis C patients than hepatitis B patients. (references) | ||
In view of the seriousness of hepatitis B virus infection in Taiwan, hepatitis B vaccine has been in great demand. (references) | ||
Economic History | Poland | Contagious diseases, especially tuberculoses and hepatitis, are still an important concern. (references) |
Human Rights | China | Fang Jue suffers from leg and back problems; Xu Wenli has suffered from hepatitis. (references) |
Portugal | Health problems such as hepatitis and drug abuse continued, and prisoners suffered from a high HIV infection rate. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | High rates of cholera, hepatitis B, malaria, and other diseases plague their communities. (references) |
Australia | According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, between 1998 and 2000 the rates of tuberculosis and hepatitis A and B among indigenous people are respectively 3.9 times as great, 5.2 times greater, and 6 times greater than that of nonindigenous people. (references) | |
Minorities | Greece | Research conducted in 2000 by the NGO Doctors of the World found that 98 percent of Roma in some camps were infected by hepatitis A, and 68 percent by hepatitis B. The rate of infection of other citizens is extremely low, since most are vaccinated. (references) |
Travel | Latvia | Diptheria, hepatitis and tick-borne encephalitis are widespread. (references) |
Peru | Cholera and other infectious diseases such as hepatitis are present in Peru. (references) | |
Eq. Guinea | Vaccinations against tetanus, typhoid, polio, meningitis, and hepatitis A and B are recommended. (references) | |
Women | China | Research indicates that up to 80 percent of prostitutes in some areas have hepatitis. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hepatitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hepatitis" is used about 633 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 633 | 10,269 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hepatitis": Acute Hepatitis ♦ Autoimmune Hepatitis ♦ Chronic Hepatitis ♦ contageous hepatitis ♦ delta hepatitis ♦ epidemic hepatitis ♦ Hepatitis A ♦ Hepatitis A Vaccines ♦ hepatitis A virus ♦ Hepatitis Antibodies ♦ Hepatitis Antigens ♦ Hepatitis B ♦ Hepatitis B Antibodies ♦ Hepatitis B Antigens ♦ Hepatitis B Core Antigens ♦ Hepatitis B e Antigens ♦ Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin ♦ Hepatitis B Surface Antigens ♦ Hepatitis B Vaccine ♦ Hepatitis B Vaccines ♦ Hepatitis B Virus ♦ Hepatitis C ♦ Hepatitis C Antibodies ♦ Hepatitis C Antigens ♦ Hepatitis C-Like Viruses ♦ Hepatitis D ♦ hepatitis delta ♦ Hepatitis Delta Virus ♦ Hepatitis E ♦ Hepatitis E Virus ♦ Hepatitis Viruses ♦ infectious hepatitis ♦ infectious necrotic hepatitis ♦ necrotic hepatitis ♦ Neonatal Hepatitis ♦ recombinant hepatitis B vaccine ♦ serum hepatitis ♦ toxic hepatitis ♦ transfusion hepatitis ♦ Viral Hepatitis ♦ viral hepatitis type A ♦ viral hepatitis type B ♦ Viral Hepatitis Vaccines. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hepatitis": hepatitis-a, hepatitis-associated, hepatitis-B, hepatitis-B. | |
Ending with "hepatitis": anti-hepatitis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "hepatitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hepatit, mahisje e mëlçisë. (various references) | |
Arabic | التهاب الكبد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хепатит (hepatite). (various references) | |
Chinese | 肝炎 . (various references) | |
Czech | zánìt jater. (various references) | |
Danish | hepatitis. (various references) | |
Dutch | hepatitis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | hepatito. (various references) | |
Farsi | تورم کبد. (various references) | |
Finnish | hepatiitti, maksatulehdus. (various references) | |
French | hépatite. (various references) | |
German | hepatitis, leberentzündung. (various references) | |
Greek | ηπατίτιδα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "לקת "כב". (various references) | |
Hungarian | májgyulladás. (various references) | |
Italian | epatite. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肝炎 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | か"え". (various references) | |
Korean | 간염. (various references) | |
Manx | yn ouw, chingys aane. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epatitishay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hepatite (hepatite, liver stone). (various references) | |
Russian | гепатит (hepatite, hepatitus, hepetitis). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hepatitis, žutica (icterus, jaundice). (various references) | |
Spanish | hepatitis. (various references) | |
Swedish | hepatit (hepatite). (various references) | |
Thai | โรคตับอักเสบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | hepatit, karaciğer iltihabı, kara sarılık. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гепатит (hepatite). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Hepatitis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hapatitis, heathites, heparitis, hepatisis, hepatitas, hepatitic, hepatitisb, hepatitisc, hepatitist, hepatitus, hepetitis, hepititis, hepotitis, herpatitis, Horaitis, Keratitis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hepatitis" (pronounced he'putī"tus) |
| 4 | -ī" t u s | arthritis, bronchitis, detritus, encephalitis, gastritis, laryngitis, mastoiditis, meningitis, osteoarthritis, situs. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, armistice, asbestos, berettas, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, duplicitous, emeritus, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, glottis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hiatus, hostess, impetus, injustice, justice, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, momentous, notice, portentous, poultice, precipitous, priestess, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, robustas, serendipitous, solicitous, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-i-p-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: pithiest. | |
-2 letters: atheist, patties, pettish, pietist, staithe. | |
-3 letters: aptest, pastie, pattie, petsai, pietas, pities, saithe, spathe, theist, thetas, tithes. | |
-4 letters: aphis, apish, ephas, haets, haste, hates, heaps, heats, heist, paise, paste, pates, paths, peats, petit, petti, phase, pieta, piste, pitas, piths, saith, sepia, septa, shape, spahi, spait, spate, spite, staph, state, stipe, tapes, tapis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-i-p-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: antipathies, hepatitides, pantheistic, philatelist, spaghettini. | |
+3 letters: hairsplitter, philatelists, sophisticate, spaghettinis. | |
+4 letters: hairsplitters, hospitalities, pantheistical, retinopathies, sophisticated, sophisticates, spaghettilike, trephinations. | |
+5 letters: antiapartheids, polytheistical, radiotherapist, stratigraphies. | |
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